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fully laid out and planted with a great variety of choice trees, 

 shrubs and flowers, with a princely and unsparing hand. 



These grounds and plantations I consider of a far higher 

 order than some lately made east of the mansion and great 

 conservatory. Of some of the new drives and walks, I can- 

 not speak in very high terms of commendation. They are 

 stiff in their curves, and too much regard has been paid to 

 keeping a regular grade over the undulating and picturesque 

 grounds. Cuttings are made through slight eminences, 

 leaving their sides nearly vertical, and the turf pegged on to 

 make it stay, and dead at that, (the first dead sodding I have 

 seen in this country.) These cuttings are exactly what an 

 engineer would do on a railroad or canal embankment. 



The slight sketch here given of Chatsworth, will, I trust, 

 be enough to give the reader some idea of its deep interest 

 and great extent ; being upwards of eleven miles in circum- 

 ference, stocked with numerous herds of deer, and presenting 

 every variety of aspect; the lofty mountain and the lowly 

 valley ; the gently swelling eminence and the verdant lawn ; 

 the wooded height and the bald bluff crag ; the majestic trees 

 of hundreds of years growth ; the elegant parterre ; the noble 

 stream, and the enlivening fountain. Nature and art have 

 combined to render this noble mansion everything that could 

 be desired for the residence of one of the first rank and for- 

 tune in the kingdom. 



Sheffield, Sept. 14, 1855. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SELECT VARIETIES OF PEARS. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



We continue our descriptive account of new or recently 

 introduced pears. Some of the trees have not yet attained 

 sufficient size to give the established character of the variety, 

 but they have proved of such a promising quality that we 

 have ventured to figure and describe them. 



